[b"]The IDF took our weapons": the abandonment of the standby classes[/b]
For two years now, the standby units in the surrounding settlements have not been prepared in case of an attack: the IDF took most of the weapons with the intention of combating the theft of weapons in the area. The standby units had to repel the terrorists with personal pistols. Everyone put their trust in the obstacle and the technologies and everything collapsed, one by one.
On the second day of the war in the south, which claimed the lives of at least 700 Israelis, the extent of the failure is beginning to become clear: many of the hundreds of terrorists who infiltrated Israel from the Gaza Strip during the morning of Saturday encountered Israeli fire for the first time only when they arrived in the settlements surrounding Gaza on their way to carry out acts of massacre, kidnapping or barricading themselves in buildings while holding hostages.
Members of standby units in several localities in the Gaza Strip told "Calcalist" that they had difficulty trying to make contact with terrorists, and this after they found themselves in real time without weapons, since the guns that were supposed to be used by the standby units during an emergency like this were collected from them by the IDF about two years ago, and this in an attempt overcome the phenomenon of gun thefts.
(Web page is in Hebrew, my quotes are via Chome's translate.)
